It's been a bad few days (rant)
First I had a flare-up of colitis. Then one of the bulbs in the bathroom light fitting went out and I can't get up there to replace it. Then a hook on the bedroom curtains fell off and I don't know how to put it back.
For the sake of my mental health I went to bed and decided to stay away from the internet and especially Facebook.
But this morning I went online for a look. The BBC Scotland website tells me "hundreds' have been found to have Covid-19 after admission to hospital. Did people get it before or after they got into hospital? Hell, I don't know and it looks as if the BBC don't know either. What happened to these folk? If they all developed C-19, what was their survival rate? Nothing from the wee guy with the teeth that I occasionally see on the Scottish News.
But following their usual procedure of firing off claims over the weekend when there's nobody around in the Scottish Government to reply to them, the BBC further tell us that "not all hospital staff are being tested". What? Were all hospital staff meant to be tested? Everybody? Cleaners, canteen staff, admin people, lab folk, ambulance drivers? The bus drivers that drop you off outside the QEUH?
WTF is going on? But I know the answer to that. This is the UUCAI - the united unionist campaign against independence. The campaign that began when Nicola Sturgeon reached a 40% approval rating among Labour and Tory voters. In the UK. Not just in Scotland. And the BBC and unionist media like the Herald decided to have a go at her.
Facebook is worse. Suddenly we've all gone from being virology experts to being experts on race issues in the USA. It's a big deal in Scotland, where the debate seems to come down to street names in Glasgow. I can just imagine the reaction of most people in Scotland. Faced with a pandemic, a recession, increasing levels of poverty, another decade of Westminster austerity, I know where my priorities are.
If there's a limit to the number of times I can write WTF, I must be near it now.
YES, black lives matter.
But nothing matters more for a lot of us than surviving Covic-19.
For the sake of my mental health I went to bed and decided to stay away from the internet and especially Facebook.
But this morning I went online for a look. The BBC Scotland website tells me "hundreds' have been found to have Covid-19 after admission to hospital. Did people get it before or after they got into hospital? Hell, I don't know and it looks as if the BBC don't know either. What happened to these folk? If they all developed C-19, what was their survival rate? Nothing from the wee guy with the teeth that I occasionally see on the Scottish News.
But following their usual procedure of firing off claims over the weekend when there's nobody around in the Scottish Government to reply to them, the BBC further tell us that "not all hospital staff are being tested". What? Were all hospital staff meant to be tested? Everybody? Cleaners, canteen staff, admin people, lab folk, ambulance drivers? The bus drivers that drop you off outside the QEUH?
WTF is going on? But I know the answer to that. This is the UUCAI - the united unionist campaign against independence. The campaign that began when Nicola Sturgeon reached a 40% approval rating among Labour and Tory voters. In the UK. Not just in Scotland. And the BBC and unionist media like the Herald decided to have a go at her.
Facebook is worse. Suddenly we've all gone from being virology experts to being experts on race issues in the USA. It's a big deal in Scotland, where the debate seems to come down to street names in Glasgow. I can just imagine the reaction of most people in Scotland. Faced with a pandemic, a recession, increasing levels of poverty, another decade of Westminster austerity, I know where my priorities are.
If there's a limit to the number of times I can write WTF, I must be near it now.
YES, black lives matter.
But nothing matters more for a lot of us than surviving Covic-19.
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